Going On a Brief Vacation

I'm headed out for the rest of the week, but before I go here are some news and notes:

Mad Men Finale. This was easily the best season of the series. It's like they finally took my advice, which was: everything in the office is awesome, everything outside it is not.

The decision to start their own company was brilliant and put the focus where it should be: the advertising business and Don Draper, and took it off where it shouldn't be: January Jones and Dick Whitman.

As for the last episode, I'm in the minority who think Don's decision was brilliant. She can take care of those 2 little brats, she probably won't care if he cheats, and she doesn't have to know all about his stupid secrets. One other thing about her that's good... (warning: nsfw)

The Tea Party. I know everyone loves it when I talk about politics, but these Tea Party candidates deserve a mention. There's one who thinks being gay is like alcoholism, one who told hispanic kids they look asian, one who announced he won't answer questions about his past and then arrested a reporter who did, and one who is really bad.

I never thought I'd say this, but Sarah Palin is suddenly looking like the sane, smart one. Maybe that's their strategy.

Most people think that this is a huge year for the Republicans. And it will be in November. But long term, they might be turning themselves into a small group of extremists, like the Mormons. Just kidding, Mormons. Like the Scientologists.

Craziest development in TV: The Event is still holding up! I never would've expected it, but it seems like they planned this thing out a bit. The show is kinda like the San Francisco Giants, you keep expecting it to fall apart but it keeps going strong.

Boardwalk Empire is starting to get good. 2nd craziest development in TV: I now like Gretchen Mol.

About 5 or 10 years ago, I used to go on and on about how much I hated Gretchen Mol. The reason? The media did this weird thing that they always do where they pronounced her "the next big thing" even though she hadn't been in anything and was (in my opinion) not that attractive.

Well, all these years later, put her in the 1920's and all of the sudden she's fricking hot. Prohibition does strange things to a woman. Maybe in 5 years the same thing will happen with Piper Perabo.

Mark Zuckerberg. There was a little bit of a trend of people writing dumb things like "The Social Network" got it wrong! I say dumb because it's a movie, yes things have to be condensed and changed to make a 2 hour movie. But I think the essence of what happened is in that movie.

Then I read a blog today that featured this video, touting it as "Mark Zuckerberg" explains how wrong "The Social Network" is. In fact, I think the opposite. He can't name a single thing that the movie got wrong:



He says that he didn't come up with Facebook because of a girl, and even claims a girl like that never existed.

The movie doesn't say that he came up with Facebook because the girl dumped him. It shows him creating Face Smash because the girl dumped him. And in fact, Sorkin used Zuckerberg's own blog word for word in that scene. That girl did exist, although they did change her name.

Regardless, it's just a movie, not everything in it really happened and things were made up to make it more entertaining. But the guy isn't an angel, and neither are the rest of us.

Rubicon. I might be the only one watching it, and I'm fine with that.

TJ Lavin. Get back to killing it, my friend.